Hair-cutter



. D; H. BUTLER.

HAIR CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3| i920.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

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DAVID I-I. BUTLER, OF EDGEWOOD, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIG'NOB, TO THE IN'LAID COM- PANY, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORORATIONKO'E RHODE ISLAND. i

HAIR-CUTTER.

nasales.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 3; 1920. Serial No. 378,34*?.

To all who/m, t may ,concern Y Be it known that I, DAVID II. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edgewood, inthe county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements vin Hair-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hair cutters, and the primary object of the invention isto provide a hair cutter which embodies a safety razor blade and which has means for easily and quickly effecting adjustment of the blade with respect to the comb teeth.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the adjusting means and the blade are held in position solelythrough friction.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which is both simplefand economical and in which the adjusting means can be made out of a single piece of metal.

Further and other objects will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following description.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of the device. l Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. l,

and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. l. In proceeding in accor-dance with the pres-v ent invention, a handle 1 is employed provided with a head 2 the latter having comb teeth 3. The rear face of the head is provided with a pair of guide grooves 4 which are parallel and extend longitudinally of the handle l. This much of the structure may be made of Celluloid or rubber or any other suitable material. The blade 5 is provided with the usual holes, common to safety razors of certain types, and is superimposed upon the rear face of the head 2 as depicted in the drawings, and is held in place by a clamping member whichconsists of a flat plate 6 formed with a central depending handle 7 which extends along the handle l. The plate 6 is formed with a pair of curved spring lingers 8 which latter extend below the head and upwardly in engagement with the front face thereof, the tension of the fingers 8 being such as will require the expenditure of some considerable force to slide the plate and therewith the blade longitudinally of the handle. In order to hold the bladel against movement, the plate 6 has two teats 9 struck out therefromwhich teats exy tend kthrough the holes in the blade andinto the respective grooves 4. In this wayk the ,blade isheld against movementin all Vdirections and the blade and the clamping device are held against movement` longitudi-kk nally of the head 2.

` In order to adjust the blade so'. as to give4 1 any desired exposure of the comb teeth, de.y

pending upon the length of the hair toibe cut7 it is merely necessary to slide the clar`np-`` ing device and therewith 'the blade `transversely of the head 2, which adjustment may be effected by manipulating the hands 7 or `by exerting force on the clamping lingers 8. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is j l. In a hair cutter, a handle having a head with parallel grooves extending transversely of the head, a blade superimposed on they head and having holes alined with the grooves, and a clamping device consisting of a plate superimposed on the blade and having teats struck out therefromA and extending through the blade holes and into the grooves of the head, a handle carried by the `plate )Patented Deo. 6,1921.

and arranged over the first named handle,

and a pair of spring fingers borne by the plate and extending on opposite sides of the handles and beneath the head and into enf gagement with the front face of thehead.

2. In a hair cutter, a handle havinga head with parallel grooves extending transversely of the head, a blade superimposed on the head and having holes alined with the grooves, and a clamping device consisting of a plate superimposed on the blade, guiding means borne by the plate and extending through the blade hole and into the groove, and spring lingers carried by the plate'and engaged with the front face of the head.

3. In a hair cutter, a handle having a head,

the head having guides extending Ltransversely thereof, a blade on one side of the head, and a clamping device formed to seat on the blade and having means to engage thek guides, said device having a handle engaged over and with the first named handle and having spring fingers which are arranged on opposite sides of the handle thereof and which engage the opposite side'of the head.

4L. Ina hair cutter, a handle having a head,

said head being formed With a pair fof trans*` movefthe device longitudinally of the first handle, the second handle engaging eX- teriorly over and with a side face of the rs't named handle, and means to hold the blade "i againstv movement longitudinally of the head.

5. In a hair cutter, a handle having ahead, a blade on the head, means movable lon'git'u'-V dinally of said handle to clamp the blade to the head and means to adjust the blade through the first named means consisting of a handle which exteriorly overlies a side face ofthe handle of the head. y

6. In; a hair cutter in combination with a safety razor blade, a handlefhaving a head,

verse grooves arranged in spaced relation to register With the usual apertures of the safety razor blade, "and a clampingmember for adjustably Securing the blade in position having'means to frictionally clamp sameto the head and having a pair of spaced parts which register With and extend through the blade Vapertures and intosad grooves tohold-the `blade at each end thereof.

7. In a hair cutter 1n Combination with a 'safety-razor blade, a handle `having a head, Ysaid head being formed with a pair of trans- 'verse `grooves arranged in spaced relation to register with the usual apertures of the safety razor blade, and a clamping member Vfor adjustably securing theblade in position having means to' frictionally clamp same to the vhead and having a pair of spaced teats struck-out .therefrom which register l with and'e-Xtend through the blade apertures and into the grooves. Y y

In testimony whereof l" have .signed my name to this specification in the presence of two Asubscribing Witnesses.

y DAVID UTLER. Vlitnesses: D

E.` P. Tooling" y y JOSEPH A. MILLER. 

